[geeks] perlish disgruntlement, java considered, sunhardware sought

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Apr 8 10:43:55 CDT 2002


>All of those modules lack functionality that sendmail provides.  Yes, that
>includes the badly named Mail::Sendmail.

If you *REALLY* need all the functionality of sendmail inside your 
program then you need to consider other options.  Such as using 
Net::SMTP to connect to a central postfix/qmail/sendmail/exim/<insert 
mta here> hub that is configured to handle your email.  Running a 
local sendmail on app servers tends to hog cpu time that would be 
*MUCH* better used on other things and the only thing it gives you is 
protection from that mail server going down, which should be taken 
into account in the program anyway.

daniel
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